AIBU to stick a massive sign on CF car parked in my space?

[DanceItOut]

I live in a small private estate. We have big signs everywhere saying it's private parking and permits only and an enforcement company that comes round. However this never deters people and they never seem to get caught with a ticket! I have one parking space. Which is numbered. It is clearly NOT a visitors parking space nor a space for random people to park in.

WIBU to print a massive poster sized sign and saying it's not their space and not to park there to put on the car for all to see? Because I currently can't park in my own space and am risking a parking fine myself by not being parked within a marked bay even with a permit. I've had to put a note on my car explaining that a car I don't know is in my space without permission just in case.

I have allocated parking and came back to find a strange car in it, one of the neighbors said it was a visitor to another neighbor and as there’s was literally nowhere I could park I dumped my car in the car park and went to ask really politely if they could move and explained why. They did move but had a real attitude with me! I then came out later to find that they had left a note on my car complaining about the fact I’d asked them to move!!

What A Jag-Off!! ..........LOL......Pittsburgh PA expression........

DanceItOut said,
"I think I'm going to make some sweet potato wedges and veg curry to use up a bunch of veg that needs using. So nothing fancy.

And no unfortunately the landlord said we aren't allowed a bollard put in even at our own expense.

Last week my neighbour had someone park in their space and threw eggs all over it and when the driver came and knocked on her door she acted surprised like she didn't know there was a car in her space at all (which was firstly impressive acting and secondly slightly plausible because her windows don't overlook her parking space which she showed them to placate them) but she did tell them that round here a lot of people are getting fed up of non residents parking in resident spaces so one of her neighbours probably did it in her defense. I wish I was as bold as her but I'm a rubbish liar so wouldn't have been able to pull it off"

You'ns are cracking me up.................Loving this thread.

I can't believe this made the daily 😂 it wasn't even a long thread with any juicy result.

Also loads of people have commented saying park behind them or ring the parking enforcement. I did call parking enforcement straight away but they said they woild send someone but probably not until afternoon as they were busy that day. I also could not block them in safely as on the blind bend and didn't want to risk my car being damaged.

Give it another week or two and either me or one of my neighbours will have another CF parked in our space and there might be a whole new thread. It's a private road and private car park but unfortunately it's only one street up from a college so we get loads of students running late for classes and just chancing it.

Take a picture of offending vehicles and send/give it to the parking management people. This is how they make their money, by the parking fines they impose, so they should be willing (and very able) to sort this out. They work with the DVLA as well, to investigate who owns the car, etc. Just report it to them. If that doesn't work, get it towed. Provide proof that it's your parking space - should be in your lease agreement I think? It can't be clamped because clamping is now illegal.

I remember as a student I was getting the train one day (I normally drove) and a fellow student said he'd give me a lift to the station. Lovely, very kind, I was heavily pregnant so very appreciative.

We only walked about 10 seconds to his car because he'd bloody parked it in the private forecourt for a house converted into flats - it only had 4 or 5 spaces and there he was taking one because he couldn't get a space in the nearest university car park (there were many others). I always parked in the empty one about 10 min walk away and heaved my massive bump up a steep hill just fine but he just couldn't be arsed. I did say something to him about it but he just found it funny.

I never looked at him in the same way after that. Hopefully he got some sort of ticket!

If people insist on criminal damage, then you need to think smart, and maximise inconvenience for minimum cost.

Remove their rear number plate. (Usually they don't realise until they are pulled over).

If you want to turn the screw, remove the number plate - wait till a few hours until the car has pissed off, and then call 101 and say you "found this behind the bins" and you are "sure it shouldn't be there"

Can I give the other side of it? When I moved in to my rented flat, the letting agent told me that space 131 was mine (I was flat 31)... so when I did park in the car park (there are other places nearby to park) I'd use that space.... no probs for quite some time, then I had a car park there occasionally so my visitors couldn't use it.... then I had a note on my windscreen.... fairly polite, but telling me that next time I parked there I'd be blocked in blah, blah and it was their space... I went from thinking "cheeky gits" to "OMG, I'd better check"... The property management company confirmed that I was in the wrong, and my space was 125... I wrote a really apologetic note explaining why I'd thought it was my space (along with a little gift to say sorry) and carried it with me for months so I could pop it on their windscreen... and to this day I have never ever seen a car parked there! So although it must be very irritating, it could be that they have been misled and believe it is their space? I wouldn't be rude about it, start off politely, and take it further if you need to

We once lived in a flat in a block with its own small private car park. Every morning one of our neighbours would be stood at the entrance blocking it off with two traffic cones that she’d bought herself. She’d happily move them to let residents in and out but woe betide any randomers who tried to use our car park! I won’t lie, at first we thought she was completely batshit but then we got the backstory - the embassy across the road, which didn’t have a car park, had decided they were entitled to ours and had been filling it up every day, blocking out residents. They were also apparently leaving loads of litter behind and visitors were often urinating in the car park(!) Lots of complaints were made and while they were being investigated our neighbour turned herself into a one woman blockade to force the issue. Legend. It ended in the embassy moving altogether, hopefully to somewhere with a car park... We have long since moved but still talk about our car park guarding neighbour.

the embassy across the road, which didn’t have a car park, had decided they were entitled to ours and had been filling it up every day, blocking out residents.

No point issuing them with the fines some suggest ....

@SerendipityJane do you not think 101 should be dealing with real problems? Ridiculous suggestion!

No don't go putting glue or sellotape on the cars will you? They will make up a pack of lies that it's damaged I did a sign recently and tbh the dickhead just drove off with it attached to the car. I would be careful what you write too, they do actually know where you live...

SerendipityJane do you not think 101 should be dealing with real problems? Ridiculous suggestion!

A car missing it's rear number plate - possibly evidence of an attempted cloning is a real problem.

Funny isn't it ? Loads of really outre suggestions on this thread, and you find that to pick on ...

I don't know why you are complaining. It's a BMW - the owner is allowed to park ANYWHERE.

It's a BMW
It is therefore entitled to park wherever it wants, regardless.

• Sorry those of you who do drive BMW's. My son says 'not all BMW drivers are knobs, but lots of knobs are BMW drivers.'

I lived in a block of all rented 4 flats for over 10 years and made some great friends with the other tenants who I still see now!

It had 4 spaces directly outside it with numbers on 1-4. The flats had letters as door numbers so the spaces did not correspond with the flat numbers. Also spaces opposite with no numbers, enough for about 6 cars. So lots of space

There was no paperwork for the spaces and the landlord just said do what you like, so we all just took whatever space there was at the time and rubbed along fine together. We all settled in to preferring a particular space which was also fine. The space at the very end was next to all of the bins and everyone avoided that one unless desperate for parking.

About 2 years before I left a couple moved in, did not say hello or greet any of us and the 2nd day left a very unpleasant note on my car saying the space I was in belonged to them, which I initially ignored.

It turned out they had a tantrum to the landlord about having to park next to the bins and demanded I park next to the bins. No one else. Just me. Over the next 2 years they continued to be unpleasant to me, I found him aggressive about this parking space so I started parking next to the bloody bins so I didn’t have to interact with him

One Sunday I had to go to work early and looked out of the window and the aggressive man had blocked everyone into the whole car park because someone else had parked in ‘his’ space. There were plenty of other spaces. He hadn’t knocked or asked the person to move, just parked his car across the exit

I sat outside with my car (next to bins) with the horn on for a full 10 mins before he finally stumbled out of his flat. Everyone else in the flats came out shouting at him for being a complete controlling twat about these spaces. His GF was crying. I always felt sorry for her

When they moved out a new couple moved in who chain smoked all day and night indoors and out - all through her pregnancy and with a newborn. I reported them to the LL for smoking indoors as it was stinking out my flat and then after that she would scream ‘you’re a pisshead!’ At me out of her windows when she saw me on the outside garden area. Charming people

Biddie191 Can I add Audi drivers to the list of knob drivers please.

potter5 indeed you can.......

I wouldn’t use glue or anything unsafe to drive after sticking it on. I knew it would be a bmw driver though. I’ve noticed many that don’t give a shit on the roads

Not a bit. Quite justified, IMHO.

The day before yesterday I wrote a not saying "Pavements for Pedestrians! You have been photographed & Tweeted." and slapped the notice under the windscreen wiper of a 4x4 parked with all four tyres squarely on the footpath.

Entitled b*gger!

We live in a corner house and our drive is at the rear, opening onto the side road. People are always parking across our driveway so we can't get our car in or out. Mostly it is our neighbours at the back. They move the car if I knock and ask, but one time I couldn't get an answer and missed a medical appointment, which caused a lot of hassle. I don't know why they keep doing it, there's plenty of room to park. If I can't get it moved I always put a sign on the windscreen telling the driver exactly how much I have been inconvenienced. If I can't put my car away at night,my insurance is invalid, as I once had a car written off during the night by a stolen car involved in a police chase.